Curiosidades

While working as casting director at 20th Century-Fox, BL discovered and named Marilyn Monroe

Hosted the British version of "I've Got a Secret" during the 1950s.

He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1724 Vine Street in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.

A few years before his death, Ben Lyon was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in a ceremony at the British Consulate in Los Angeles.

Adoptive father, with Bebe Daniels, of actor Richard Lyon, and natural father of Barbara Lyon.

Following his death, he was interred in the Chapel Columbarium at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.

Son-in-law of Phyllis Daniels.

Lyons wife, actress Bebe Daniels was a victim of a stalker in the early 1930s and they had to testify at his trial after he was released from a psychiatric institution and continued to stalk her. He was sentenced to a psychiatric institution for life, and shortly after Lyon and Daniels moved to London with their children.